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1. All delight in harmony, symmetry, and
just proportion.
2. Dissonance and asymmetry cry out for resolution,
depicting even more powerfully what is not there.
3. Harmony among objects is called beauty. Harmony
among or within people is called goodness.
4. Sincerity results in harmony between what
one says and what one knows. Integrity results in harmony between what one
does and what one believes.
5. Equity and justice are forms of
symmetry.
6. Harmony requires humility, since one ought
not oneself be out of proportion.
7. The external rewards of harmony are security,
prosperity, and ultimately survival. The internal rewards are pleasure and
inner peace.
8. Harmony is never perfect, nor is it ever entirely
absent. It is always more or less.
9. External harmony increases internal harmony.
Internal harmony increases external harmony. Thus when one says something
true, one increases the harmony of the whole world. And when one struggles
against another's oppression, one struggles against one's
own.
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